Delfinus

Hello authors! I've decided to finally do something I've wanted to do for a long time, write a KSP mission report, so allow me to present to you... Kerbol eXploration, a tale of Bravery! Of new frontiers! Of celestial body edibility! So, having decided to join the ranks of the authors of the KSP forums, do any of you have any tips? Any criticism? Thanks in advance. -Dolphin.

Somebody who writes a mission report posting in the forum games? Haven't you heard of the Caste system? Cheater!

That's awesome! Pretty lucky to have an eclipse during sunrise.

Update, June 5th 2016, it has been a month since I last updated this, I have made attempts to write Chapter 6 (and almost was successful in one of them) but unfortunately Hard difficulty is too hard for me, and it isn't the greatest difficulty level to use when writing a Mission Report, and I have gone bankrupt in-game, so sadly Kerbol Exploration will not receive any more updates, however I may start a mission report about my main KSP career save, in which I am preparing to launch my first Kerbbed Duna mission. -Dolphin. Hey guys, as you may know 1.1 is out! YAY! Sadly my old save was modded, probably too much to be moved over to the new version, (Edit: It works in 1.1) and although I'll be continuing it in 1.0.5 I'm also starting a new save in 1.1, and I've decided to make a mission report/story about it, which has been one of the things I've always wanted to do in KSP. So, here it is! Mod List: StageRecovery Kerbal Alarm Clock. Porkjet's Habitat Pack. Firespitter. (Plugin only.) KIS. CustomAsteroids. Hyperedit. (For testing stuff in an "R&D Simulations" save only) KAS. KAC. Sigma Binary. Kopernicus. Xen's Planet Collection. Trans-Keptunian. Mouse Aim Flight. SigmaBinary. Planetary Base Systems. Layered Animations. (Plugin Only) Kerbal Engineer. Distant Object Enhancement. Scatterer. Stock Visual Enhancements. Texture Replacer. Scart91 Texture Pack. (Heads only) Gregrox's colored EVA/IVA Suits. (To my knowledge was only found on Kerbalstuff, which as most people know has gone down, but I still have the files and they work on 1.1) Space_Kraken's (awesome) Andromeda skybox. (Doesn't have it's own thread but there's a link to it on the Texture Replacer thread to a page on the old TR thread with a download) And remember, I'm not a great writer. In other words, I'm terrible at it. KX, KERBOL EXPLORATION: CHAPTER 1, NEW BEGINNINGS... It was a normal day on Kerbin, the Kerbals busy eating snacks, launching rockets, flying planes, and eating even more snacks, while Kerbonauts on the Mun and Minmus happily bounced around and tested the edibility of the surface... Then the Supernova of Ketelgeuse 1.1 hit, the radiation knocking out satellites and spacecraft across the Kerbol system. Luckily the Kerbonauts onboard the bases, stations, and spacecraft around Kerbin and it's moons managed to get their return craft operational and return to Kerbin, and the space program had yet to send any Kerbbed expeditions interplanetary. But most of Kerbin's infrastructure in Space was destroyed, and while the Space Program was busy rebuilding Killionare Joe Kerman decided to take the opportunity to help in the return of Kerbals to space, he quickly founded Kerbol eXploration, or KX. With it's goal being to quickly re-establish the supply of Mint Ice Cream from Minmus, oh, and return Kerbals to space, but mainly the Mint Ice Cream. Joe quickly managed to find an old unused factory near the equator for sale, which they purchased and made their new Space center, Joe also managed to "convince" (AKA bribed them with snacks) some of his friends, Gene, Jeb, Bill, Bob, Valentina, Wernher, Mort, Linus, Walt, and Gus to help assist with the founding of his new space program. Their first action was to find some unused junk, fill it with gunpowder, and hope something flew up into the air and stayed intact in the resulting explosion, they named it "Dreamer I" due to it being the first step towards accomplishing their dream of re-establishing the supply of Mint Ice Cream from Minmus to Kerbin. They left some snacks in the pod in the hopes that it would lure some dumb creature into the pod to allow them to study the effects of being launched inside a small capsule upon relatively fragile stuff, which would provide essential knowledge for making their spacecraft capable of transporting Mint Ice Cream. The snacks were successful in their purpose, as they managed to lure Jeb into the pod, Bill, who was in charge of assembling the spacecraft, quickly ran over and sealed the hatch shut, which Jeb did not seem to care about or even notice, as he was happily eating the snacks, while Jeb was distracted eating the snacks the capsule was quickly carried out to the Launchpad, at this point Jeb finished eating the snacks and began trying to figure out how to escape the capsule, but before he could open the door the gunpowder was ignited and the capsule was sent flying up into the air. Jeb was thrilled by the force of the liftoff, and as he was bouncing around the capsule he bumped into a button that opened a hatch containing a spare blanket donated by Mort to use as the parachute, as he had no need for it, due to spending most of the night calculating taxes and finances (The others are still trying to figure out how he doesn't die from sleep deprivation). The parachute remained attached to the spacecraft via some spare belts donated by friends of Joe that had spent too much time eating snacks, and therefore the belts had become too tight for them, but they were perfect for use in the spacecraft. The craft was successfully slowed down by the parachute, and (to the surprise of many) landed intact. Jeb immediately found the duct tape keeping the hatch closed, somehow managed to defy the mighty strength of duct tape, and tore it off, causing the hatch to fall open, he then jumped out of the craft excitedly. Jeb: Woho! THAT WAS AWESOME!!! Bill: Yeah, thanks to my fine engineering! Jeb: Wait, you built that? Why didn't it immediately fall apart? Gene: Jeb... Wernher: Ze kraft vas much more successful zan I predicted, I admit I vas expectingz it to explode from ze gunpowder, and if it did survive zat then for zit to be destroyed by ze force of the kraft accelerating. Bill: Both of you need to have more faith in my designs. Joe: Let's quiet this arguing, we managed to successfully launch our first rocket! Jeb: Fine. Bill: Whatever. The Kerbin World-Firsts Record-Keeping Society arrived with a trophy for launching the first post-Supernova rocket, aswell as some money, which was spent on developing bigger boosters, snacks, and bribing people to not arrest them for "borrowing" their stuff to use in building the rocket. While happily devouring a mountain of snacks the crew realized that they were supposed to be running a space program, and quickly looted the nearest town for spare garbage cans, after narrowly escaping the authorities they arrived back at their space center, they then duct-taped two garbage cans together to make an even bigger booster, filled it with gunpowder, once again lured Jeb inside it, and set it on the pad. They also duct-taped an additional garbage can filled with snacks onto the craft, to study what happens to snacks when subjected to the force of acceleration of a rocket, this would give them essential knowledge for keeping spacecraft in orbit supplied with snacks once they reached space, and also transporting Mint Ice Cream. Jeb was happily sitting in the capsule with a grin on his face, ready for the liftoff. Gene: 10, 9, 8, Jeb: Booooored. Gene: 7, 6, 5, 4, Jeb: T-Z-Space. Gene: JEEEEEEEEEEB! Jeb: Yeehaw! The craft reached over 20km, which allowed KX to study what happens to snacks at high altitudes, Jeb temporarily passed out from the lack of oxygen at this altitude. Wernher: It vould appear zat ve need oxygen and heating systems at zis altitude, Ja? Bill: Yes, although the temporary peace and quiet is nice, do we need them on the ships Jeb is piloting? Gene: Yes, Bill. Bill: Dang it. The booster was detached, as they feared that the combined weight of the larger booster and the snack-filled trashcan would be too much for the parachute. Jeb: Ugh... hey, what happened? Gene: You passed out from lack of oxygen at such a high altitude, luckily your suit supplied enough oxygen to keep you alive up there. Bill: Oh great, he's awake again. Jeb: Hey! Gene: *Sigh* Is it even possible for Jeb to get along with the two B's? Bob: Hey, did somebody mention me? I wasn't paying attention, I was busy playing Human Space Program, this game's great! Jeb: That joke's gotten old. *Fourth wall breach alarm goes off* Bill: EMERGENCY! Fourth wall breach! Gene: JEEEEB! Walt: Oh great, now I have to cover up the fact we breached the fourth wall. Joe: Ugh, this'll be a disaster for us if anybody besides us hears about it. Gene: Yeah, we gotta stay focused on the mission for now though, we'll worry about that later. While descending through the clouds the parachute was opened, this one had extra duct tape on it to ensure it didn't fail with the heavy load of snacks. Once again the craft was successfully delivered to the surface intact by the parachute, with it's cargo of snacks and a very excited, slightly frozen Kerbal. Upon landing Jeb immediately jumped out and tried to open the garbage can full of snacks, luckily Bob and Linus successfully kept Jeb under control while Wernher carried the snacks over to the Lab. Jeb: Let go of me, dang it! Linus: We need to study those snacks! Bob: If you eat those snacks now then we won't be able to study them and figure out ways to keep you supplied with snacks while you're in orbit, besides, you can eat them after Wernher is done studying them. Jeb: Fiiiine. Wernher began analyzing the snacks in the lab and developing new technologies based on the data gained from them, and the fourth wall breach was successfully kept a secret, and the crew had a feast of snacks in celebration. And that's all for now, folks, stay tuned to see what happens next! Will Jeb be the first Kerbal in Space? Will more fourth wall breaches happen? Will they accidentally eat all the snacks on Kerbin? Find out in the next chapter!

Yes, it is using it as a base of operations to take over the Earth. Waiter! KSP 1.1 is in my soup!

I dare ye to try putting your Ocean on this.

Cartoon.

Banned for racism against Andromedeans.

Granted, but since you wished for nothing other than for the wish to not be corrupted you get nothing. I wish that... I could think of something to wish for.

Banned for loving Dres too much, Laythe for da win!

Granted, it is SQUAD shutting down. I wish the addiction I've had to Minecraft lately would stop.

Ant Scale Kerbol System. Have you ever felt these massive planets are too big? Even with the Toy Solar System mod? Let me introduce you to Ant Scale Kerbol System! every planet is scaled down 10x from the Toy Solar System mod, Kerbin is only 6 kilometers across, Jool is only 60 kilometers (The size of Minmus!) Minmus is only 600 meters! Kerbol is roughly 1/3rd the stock size of Jool!

Apologies for the inconvenience sir, *Destroys Dres* Waiter! Saturn is in my soup!

Known for Ninja'ing people.

Banned because you post waaay too much.

The Sun won't explode, it's too small, it'll just turn into a Red Giant and then a White Dwarf, destroying the Inner Solar System in the process. Granted, but people who love the other planets successfully kick Dres out of the Kerbol System. I wish that @max_creative went on less posting sprees.

Banned for being close to a speedcube.

Known for being an orbiter player.

I had a picture of a torpedo firing from a Royal Navy warship.

Granted, you are then banned for it. I wish to RULE THE EARTH!

Granted, but funds becoming unlimited makes them have zero value, causing the economy to collapse, quickly bringing civilization down with it. I wish my dogs would stop waking me up in the morning.

Launch the torpedoes!

Awesome Potato.

Nope, but atleast you have me! @Maximus97?